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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 30, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs
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• Coming Soon – AWS SDK for Go
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• From Node.js to Go
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• EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying
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• Replace CoffeeScript with ES6
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• Signing in to websites with SSH
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• Use Haskell for shell scripting
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• Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers
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• Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports
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• Open letter to German readers: What you were never told about Greece
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 29, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Slack Acquires Screenhero (YC W13)
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• Warning: Wi-Fi Blocking Is Prohibited
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• Firefox Hello
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• Introducing React Native [video]
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• How a Blind Person Programs
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• Inkscape 0.91 release
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• 'YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google
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• Why Every Movie Looks Sort of Orange and Blue
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• Capital One Fraud Researchers May Also Have Done Some Fraud
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• Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 28, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Lodash v3.0.0
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• From 0 to $1B – Slack's Founder Shares Their Launch Strategy
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• Unreal Paris
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• Luna – Hack your sleep
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• Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
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• Deploying Tor Relays
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• Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
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• HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF
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• Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps
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• Who Owns Los Angeles?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 27, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Does Sponsoring Daring Fireball Work?
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• Introducing Aurelia
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• U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars
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• Main is usually a function – when is it not?
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• Facebook was down
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• Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
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• Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan
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• CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow
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• Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham
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• YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 26, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Papers We Love
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• A practical introduction to functional programming
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• Mezzanine: A Common Lisp-based 64-bit OS for VirtualBox
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• Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?
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• Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem
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• PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech
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• Coinbase Exchange
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• Inside the world of longsword fighting
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• Coding is not the new literacy
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• EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 25, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)
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• Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (2001) [pdf]
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• The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about hexagonal grids
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• The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
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• Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift
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• SpaCy: Industrial-strength NLP with Python and Cython
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• Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative
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• Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President
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• I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 24, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• China Cracks Down on VPN Services After Censorship System ‘Upgrade’
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• Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics
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• Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues
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• Google discloses three severe vulnerabilities in Apple OS X
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• Day in the Life of a Google Manager
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• Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter
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• Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop
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• Hipster Logo Generator
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• When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'
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• Open Food Facts – A free food products database
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 23, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
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• Gitlet: Git implemented in JavaScript
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• Learn data science in your browser
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• Gotham Air: Manhattan to JFK in 6 minutes for $99
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• “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”
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• Diagnostic page for Google.com
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• The Clock
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• Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]
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• The Emularity
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• What should I do about YouTube?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 22, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications
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• What is the best hard drive?
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• An experimental real world adblock
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• A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS
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• How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact
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• Riot – A React-like, 2.5K user interface library
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• WhatsApp doesn't understand the web
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• Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python
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• A better pull request
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• 16 Things
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 21, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa
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• Working at Netflix
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• SpaceX Sells 10% Stake to Google, Fidelity for $1B
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• HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
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• Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
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• An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra
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• Emacs Is My New Window Manager
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• A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs
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• The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
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• Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Best Entrepreneur I Know
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• Google and Fidelity Invest $1B in SpaceX
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• New police radars can 'see' inside homes
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• Suspended jaccuzzi
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• µBlock for Firefox
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• So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
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• Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More
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• Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
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• Eigenvectors and eigenvalues explained visually
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• The Ronco Principle
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
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• Ask HN: How do you find freelance/contract gigs?
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• Salary negotiations for techies (2011)
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• SPARTAN: Procedural Tile Generator
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• I think I've solved the Haskell records problem
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• Apple Software Quality Questions
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• N.S.A. Tapped into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say
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• Node.js and io.js – Very different in performance
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• The Whole Haystack: The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records
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• Matter.js – A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open Data Structures
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• Arch Linux on MacBook Pro Retina 2014
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• Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed
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• Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight
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• Robert Morris: All About Programming
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• Light captured at 100B frames per second
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• Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go
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• How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices
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• Show HN: Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research
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• Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened
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• What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?
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• How GCHQ Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco
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• Announcing TypeScript 1.4
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• In surprise FCC filing, Sprint endorses net neutrality
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• New Revelations U.S. Tracked Americans’ Calls for Over a Decade
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• What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
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• “What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”
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• The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google
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• New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing
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• Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pirate Roberts
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• Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
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• ‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8
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• Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars
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• What taking my daughter to a comic book store taught me
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• BBC uses RIPA terrorism laws to catch TV licence fee dodgers in Northern Ireland
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• SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”
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• Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules
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• Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New, more powerful Google Translate app
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• Full-fledged FPS in WebGL
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• Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript
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• How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
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• A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You
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• But Where Do People Work in This Office?
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• Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind
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• Awk in 20 Minutes
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• Google Glass sales halted
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• Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Human Toll of Flashbangs
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• Google Domains Launches to All in U.S
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• Microsoft BASIC for 6502 – Original Source Code (1978)
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• Io.js 1.0.0
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• The problem with Angular
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• Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
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• NW.js
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• DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
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• I Owe It All to Community College
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• Obama calls for municipal broadband
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SQL, Scaling, and What's Unique About Postgres
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• Dark Sky has a new owner
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• Duke Officials Silenced Med Student Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab
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• What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps
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• BPA alternative disrupts normal brain-cell growth, study says
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• Run Any JavaScript Function in the Cloud
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• Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development
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• Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad
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• The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer
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• Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• An Attack on Telegram
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• We have broken HTTP
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• Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD
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• Motorola Moto E modifications for anti-surveillance
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• Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients
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• What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?
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• Finish one thing today
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• KeySweeper – Arduino-based passive wireless keyboard sniffer
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• Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC
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• Don't Talk to Corp Dev
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ori File System
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• A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords
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• Chilling Effects removes itself from search engines
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• WebGL Water Simulator
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• East of Palo Alto’s Eden
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• 151-byte static Linux binary in Rust
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• Show HN: App for Falling in Love
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• We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub
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• Google Analytics, Casualty of Spam
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• The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Code Review Checklist
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• ThorCon Power
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• Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure
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• Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (2009)
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• DIY 2880x1800 projector
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• Trapped in His Body for 12 Years, a Man Breaks Free
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• Judge Orders NYPD to Release Records on X-ray Vans
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• The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf]
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• Applying an experimental procedure to fall in love
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• How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Farm 432
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• Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'? [video]
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• Dirty Coding Tricks
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• Samsung Unveils SSD Delivering Speeds of Over 2 GB/s
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• In Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack, Let’s Not Sacrifice Even More Rights
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• How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire
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• The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom
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• List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science
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• A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
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• Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store
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• Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial
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• Experimental KVM-based VMM, Written in Go
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• What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits
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• Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought
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• How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages using a pop song
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• Can't you just turn up the volume?
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• Whitehouse response to Aaron Swartz petition
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• Scroll Slow. Have Fun
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• Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How GitHub Uses GitHub to Document GitHub
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• The Fire phone debacle
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• Ford Tries to Shut Down Independent Repair Tool with Copyright
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• Intel Compute Stick
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• I made a debugger that draws the state machine of the program
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• DMCA Copyright Complaint to Google
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• JavaScript in 2015
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• Filezilla at SourceForge is malware
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• Je Suis Charlie
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• A Teenager’s View on Social Media
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance
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• Show HN: WordsAPI
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• How Software in Half of NYC Cabs Generates $5.2M a Year in Extra Tips
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• Moonpig.com Vulnerability – Exposes customer data
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• Hubble captures the sharpest ever view of Andromeda Galaxy
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• Elon Musk AMA
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• Nokia 215
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• Secure Secure Shell
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• Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
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• Kickstarter switches to Stripe
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• NixOS and Stateless Deployment
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• Wifiphisher: Fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks
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• Kyoto taxi drivers reduce robberies by 50 percent by doing nothing
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• Apple has lost the functional high ground
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• Bitstamp Accounts Frozen
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• BLOKK – A font for clients who don't understand lorem ipsum
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• What Is Aging? Most Scientists Still Get It Wrong
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• Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles
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• Introducing Google Cast for audio
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• A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• HSTS Super Cookies
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• Google is shutting down OpenID 2.0
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• Make Your Own Programming Language
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• Automatic REST API for Any Postgres Database
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• Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
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• Code rot and why I picked OpenBSD
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• Why are free proxies free? (2013)
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• StackExchange System Architecture
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• Why Rosyna Can't Take a Movie Screenshot
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• Facebook is the new AOL
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Design of a Vim-like text editor
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• Mistakes Node.js Developers Make
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• Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates
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• Lizard Squad attacks Brian Krebs
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• Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?
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• Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package manager
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• Indie.vc
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• Slaves endure 'a living hell' on remote South Korean islands
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• Freedom in your computer and in the net [video]
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• Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What is going to happen in 2015
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• Elasticsearch for Beginners: Indexing Your GMail Inbox
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• Rise of the Scientific Programmer
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• Show HN: Snabbt.js – a minimalistic animation library
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• Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future
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• Show HN: A curated list of remote jobs
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• A Dangerous and Costly Photo in Japan
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• Environment Variables Considered Harmful for Your Secrets
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• My Resume Is Total Fiction
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• Clojure 2014 Year in Review
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New Solar Power Material Converts 90 Percent of Captured Light into Heat
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• The End of Gangs
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• Ruby talks of 2014
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• A Magician’s Best Trick: Revealing a Basic Human Bias
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• Dark Mail Technical Alliance
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• Thunderstrike – Apple EFI firmware vulnerability
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)
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• What is special about Nim?
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• Microcontrollers Not Allowed – How to troll your college instructor
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• One day left to help Internet Archive reach its donation goal
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Daily Hacker News for 2014-12-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2014 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Learn Efficiently
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• Veteran's Hospital LSD Testing (1956) [video]
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• PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads
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• Sony Reveals an Even Bigger Attack on the Internet – the MPAA Is Behind It
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• My Amazon S3 Mistake
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• Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doesn't Save You
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• The CPAN Pull Request Challenge
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• “I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”
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• India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
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• MRI Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby
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